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'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Well, they did get them to switch to USB-C, so I'm not holding my breath, but I do hope that this will lead to more interoperability. I'm tired of Apple making Android/non-Apple users feel like second-class citizens.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

I have to agree. Switching to USB-C is a big step, but I doubt Apple will become more interoperable unless they are forced to.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I still don’t think that one was actually the EU’s doing. Macs got USB C before most PCs, iPads had it for a long time before iPhones, and iPhones switched over 10 years after Apple announced lightning saying it would be their connector “for the next decade”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Apple got an special exemption the last time the EU standardised the port to Micro-USB.

The writing would have been on the wall for them. Especially as thunderbolt 3+ uses the USB-C connector, there was no guarantee the EU would give them exception again, and lightning is almost certainly not designed to handle the wattage needed to charge a Mac.

But otherwise, if not compelled, I doubt that Apple would have carried it over to the mobile devices. The timing is fortuitous, but likely because Apple has a little leeway before the EU forbade their devices/fined them for not following the law.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Even then, for whatever reason, a (grantedly cheap) 3,5mm->USB-C adapter my dad bought didn't work at all on his iPhone while it works just fine on my Android